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Is AI Making Us Lazy? - Cal Newport
Is AI Making Us Lazy? - Cal Newport
Last fall, I published a New Yorker essay titled, “What Kind of Writer is ChatGPT?”. My goal for the piece was to better understand how ... Read more
·calnewport.com·
Is AI Making Us Lazy? - Cal Newport
A tough place to govern
A tough place to govern
Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
·scripting.com·
A tough place to govern
A Moral Reckoning
A Moral Reckoning
On Evil, Civility, and Why Some Things Cannot Be Compromised Away
·notesfromthecircus.com·
A Moral Reckoning
Undemocratic Assumptions of Long(er)-Duration Sovereign Debt
Undemocratic Assumptions of Long(er)-Duration Sovereign Debt
A defining and underpinning characteristic of the international financial system in the 21st century is the apparent necessity of access to, usage of and infrastructure needed for sovereign debt (or comparable instruments), credit markets and capital markets more broadly. Typically, states across the globe rely on access to and usage of such markets to borrow...
·c4ss.org·
Undemocratic Assumptions of Long(er)-Duration Sovereign Debt
The Real Judicial Coup
The Real Judicial Coup
How the Supreme Court Just Redefined Presidential Authority
·notesfromthecircus.com·
The Real Judicial Coup
Thursday Thoughts
Thursday Thoughts
On Peter Thiel's Gnostic Christianity and the Pathology of Hierarchical Thinking
·notesfromthecircus.com·
Thursday Thoughts
Ideas Without Love
Ideas Without Love
Peter Thiel's Elegant Nihilism
·notesfromthecircus.com·
Ideas Without Love
The Anti-Woke Reactionaries
The Anti-Woke Reactionaries
The 21st Century’s Useful Idiots of Fascism
·notesfromthecircus.com·
The Anti-Woke Reactionaries
The Triumph of the American Moron
The Triumph of the American Moron
Clarence Thomas's anti-trans concurrence is the culmination of right-wing anti-intellectualism
·stringinamaze.net·
The Triumph of the American Moron
What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn (Published 2018)
What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn (Published 2018)
American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?
·nytimes.com·
What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn (Published 2018)
Sexism Promoted Lifelong Monogamy?
Sexism Promoted Lifelong Monogamy?
Compared to farmers, foragers were more egalitarian and had more communal property, food-sharing, and child-rearing.
·overcomingbias.com·
Sexism Promoted Lifelong Monogamy?